A Michael Broad Blog
YES, in practice YouTube allows videos of animal cruelty despite their own policies (as stated by Google online) quite correctly forbidding them. The policy on animal abuse is set out below. The disturbing aspect of this fact is that YouTube allows videos of animal abuse even when the videos are reported by users. It …
Well, there is not much to say when answering the question in the title. Hecker is a tame caracal. He or she is tame because they wear a collar. Caracals are an athletic, medium-size wild cat species somewhat predisposed to being tamed but not truly domesticated. You see them as sulky, fat pets in …
There’s recently been a lawsuit filed by an animal rights group, Lady Freethinker, to try and legally force Google to do more to keep videos of animal abuse off the YouTube website. The lawsuit failed because Alphabet Inc.’s Google is protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law, which shields …
According to the allaboutcats.com website, ‘thatlitttlepuff’, an attractive gray-and-white influencer cat with blue eyes, is the most successful TikToker with 27.8 million followers at the date of this post but this number will be out of date pretty quickly because the number is going up rapidly even today. Thatlitttlepuff has 594.2 million likes. The …
Beluga is not a breed of cat. Beluga is a random-bred cat i.e. a moggy. Although I sense that it is immaterial to the man who created Beluga as to whether he is a breed of cat or not. It is hard to talk about Beluga because he is fictional, first and foremost, and …
Bingus is a Sphynx or a Don Sphynx, both hairless cats which went viral back in March of 2020, thanks to an Instagram video. Bingus is far more likely to be a Sphynx, a breed with its origin in Canada. The Don Sphynx comes from Russia. That answers the question and I could stop …
In September 2020, I reported on a plethora of fake kitten rescue videos on YouTube (link to that article). It was clear that in countries in Asia and perhaps Eastern Europe, some unscrupulous people were making fake cat rescue videos. It was almost as if they had given a lot of thought to how …
A convoluted story of business negotiations and possible shenanigans (if you are a cynical old-timer like me) concerning businessman Tim Pool, an associate or partner of his, Emily Molli and Betsy, who is Molli’s cat. Pool is a multi-millionaire YouTuber and businessman who got rich on disseminating the news. That’s how I see it …
